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[Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers]
Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
Panda Books 1982. First edition. Near fine and bright pictorial stiff wraps with clean text throughout Panda Books, 1982 paperback
Bookseller reference : 24496
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[SEWING -- EDUCATION/WOMEN].
Sewing. Elementary A for beginners in sewing in the 6th or 7th Grades. The National System of Industrial Education Department of Household Science. . . .
Plano IL: National Manual Training Corporation 1911. 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. 36 leaves unnumbered. With photo illustrations diagrams muslin cloth sample laid-in. Printed softcover on front stapled at spine to thick back board some soiling & tidemark to lower right corners edgewear couple minor tears still G reference copy w/ former ownership marking of Minnie Berg 6th Grade Portland OR on front cover. First edition of this uncommon sewing textbook for home economics and manual trades students taking their first instruction courses in 6th and 7th grade for sewing. The lessons were intended to instruct students in how to assemble a sewing basket including a photo of a J.P. Coats sewing sample display as well as instructions on how to straighten cloth sew basting back stitching overcasting and running stitches details about the cotton plant and much more. The National Manual Training Corp. was a short-lived vocational training education service which merged with Marion Norman Collection Indiana Manual Training Co. and the Muncie Conservatory of Music to become Muncie Normal Institute in Muncie IN< which was foreclosed in 1917. Purchased by the Ball Brothers the Institute was given to the State and eventually became Ball State. No copies in Worldcat. National Manual Training Corporation, paperback
Bookseller reference : 57310
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[SEXUALITY -- BIRTH CONTROL/WOMEN]. BRUCE, James.[pseud. of MALKIN, Solomon].
The natural method of birth control. . . .
New York: Falstaff Press Inc. Privately Issued for Cultured Adults 1935. 8vo. 16 pp unpaginated. printed on sepia-tinted paper with numerous text illustrations printed in brown ink. Self-printed softcovers uncut very slight dustsoiling NF copy. First edition of this very rare pamphlet on birth control issued by the notorious mail-order erotica publisher Falstaff Press which specialized in republishing many of the Panurge anthropological titles including titles on sexuality sexual disorders birth control eugenics phallic worship scientific sexualia and flagellation. Most of these titles were written by some of the most significant anthropologists and sociologists working in the new and growing field of sexual sciences in the 1930s including Hirschfeld Reclus Niemoeller and Rohleder. Solomon Malkin was a young New York University scholar who had studied under Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and oversaw the choosing of illustrations and text for the birth control pamphlets. This work details the very unreliable “Rhythm Method†of contraception depending on the charting of menstrual cycles however notes that this is has only 50% effectiveness and should be combined with artificial birth control methods. Worldcat locates 6 copies UC Davis Emory NLM Case Western Cleveland Melbourne; See: Jay Gertzman Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 pp. 192-195; 353-354. Falstaff Press, Inc., Privately Issued for Cultured Adults, paperback
Bookseller reference : 54115
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[Simone de BEAUVOIR}
SIMONE de BEAUVOIR
Un ouvrage de 192 pages, format 160 x 240 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage, publié en 2020, RBA, bon état
Bookseller reference : LFA-126722555
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[Silk Industry; Women; Japan]
Japanese Silk Industry albumen photograph
1870. Very good condition. An early albumen photograph of two young women working a loom and spinning wheel in the silk industry. Hand color of detail on the women's kimono. <br /> <br /> 13 x 9 1/2" in a 14 x 12" mat. unknown
Bookseller reference : 27901
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[SKIING -- FLUMS, SWITZERLAND/WOMEN]. [Barbara? (compiler & writer)].
Flums - 1953. Nicely curated and annotated photo album of a young woman member of the West Hartlepool HF Rambling Club on a “Ramblers†skiing adventure in the Swiss Alps. She has documented the trip with 58 photos ski lift tickets clippings and postcards together with 5 long multi-page letters of approximately 5000 words to “Mummy & Daddy†chronicling her adventures.
Flumserberg Switzerland & UK: Barbara 1953. Oblong 4to. 9.5 x 6.7 in. 36 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 58 photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.25 in. up to 3.5 x 5.5 in. some w/ scalloped edges nearly all w/ white lettered captions 2 real photo postcards nearly all mounted w/ glassine corners 4 pp. of brochure photo clippings 2 lift tickets 32 pp separately numbered leaves of ink manuscript ALS to “Mummy & Daddy†written in cursive w/ fold creases from previous insertion into mailing envelopes originally. Contemporary black textured boards post-binder brass screw posts at gutter margin gilt lettering stamped on front cover hand-lettered title minor rubbing NF exemplar. This excellent photo album records the completely new Ramblers’ skiing center in Switzerland established near Flumserberg in the Swiss Alps following World War II which featured three consecutive chair- and ski-lifts and a wide diversity of ski runs and close by shops. Barbara has included a photo postcard of her Pension Schwendiewiese and listed it as her return address in the letters home. After arriving at the Pension the group rents some skis have them fitted learned her instructor was to be Walter who “speaks a little†English and believes they will be more efficient than the Sr. Anton ski school. She writes while they were training that they “passed a squad of Swiss soldiers on the way down. . . and seem to be in an Alpine training school.†She writes about hearing of the death of Queen Mary of Teck March 24 1953 which is the only indication of dating within the year. She writes about the glorious weather riding the Tannenboden ski lift to Prodkamm slope writes about the skiing the slopes hiking back up and her great progress. Her letters also describe their evening sing-a-longs dances organized by the instructors and staying up way too late before being tired on the slopes the next day. The photos reveal the striking views and the participants in the skiing excursion. Barbara has included photos of the three instructors her intermediate group of skiers the snow-covered road to Tannenboden the snow-covered chapel at Flumserberg and the views from Flumserberg. Also included are images of the ski slopes the Tannenboden ski lift attached to the cable ski-hoist and the Kreuz ski-hut. The group was a mixed skiing group of men and women with most of the participants identified by first name with views in the background. Album ends with photo of the group reaching Victoria station on their route home at the end of the trip. Barbara, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 58350
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[Society for the Protection of Women and Children]:
Society for the Protection of Women and Children Pamphlet lacking title disbound etc.
Printed for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from Aggravated Assaults. Office8 St Martin's Place Trafalgar Square crossed out and added in MS "10 Duke Street St James's SW" c.1860. Pp. 1-16 only 8vo. What remains is in good condition pages just holding together. I've found just one reference online an example of one man's brutality https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/11/a-case-for-the-society-for-the-protection-of-women-and-children-.html. Contents: case histories of acts of brutality or worse and their culmination in Court.No other copies traced or publications by the organisation. No printed matter by this Society has yet been traced. Printed for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from Aggravated Assaults. Office,8 St Martin's Place, Trafalgar unknown
Bookseller reference : 24365
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[SOUTH PACIFIC -- WOMEN]. [GRIMSHAW, Beatrice].
The islands of the blest: something about Rarotonga Mangaia Atiu Mauke Aitutaki Tahiti Raiatea Huahine. . . travel brochure for Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand.
Dunedin N.Z.: Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. 1913. 4to. 7.75 x 10 in. 27 5 pp. including advertisements printed in blue-tinted ink. With numerous photo & text illustrations throughout 1 large double-page colour map “Chart of Routes†inserted as centerfold. Brown softcovers illustrated and printed in gold metallic ink nicely decorated Art Nouveau cover lettering & illustration die-cut window front cover for image of a Tahitian girl “La Belle Tahitienne†on front cover w/ original Union Steam Ship Co. label affixed to front cover yapp fore-edges minor edgewear tear to corner of label still VG- copy. Early printing of this nicely illustrated and informative travel brochure first issued in 1910 touting the Union Steam Ship Co. cruises to the Hervey Cook Society Tuamotu and Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific. The Union Steam Ship Co. operated over 50 steamships and round trip fairs to the Cook & Society Groups or the Western Pacific could be purchased for £16-34 at the time. Grimshaw 1870-1953 was an avid traveler and Irish writer who wrote for the Daily Graphic and The Times before moving in 1903 to the Territory of Papua where she worked as a travel publicist and would issue her books such as “In the Strange South Seas†“From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands†and “South Sea Sarah.†Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., paperback
Bookseller reference : 60709
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[SOVIET WOMEN].
Zhenskiy Zhurnal Women's magazine.
Moscow Ogonek 1929. . 12 issues complete run of 1929 folio 34.5 cm x 25.5 cm; profusely illustrated throughout in black and white with photos and illustrations as well as fashion illustrations in colour no.2 slightly stained no.4 minor spotting throughout and lacking the supplementary folding pattern as is often the case no.6 pp.37-40 loose no.9 faint remnant of tape repair to spine; original illustrated or photomontage wrappers a very good set.<br /> A complete run of one year of one of the major periodicals of the 1920s with striking cover designs.<br /><br />Runs of Zhenskiy zhurnal are notably scarce with only a handful of issues in institutions worldwide. The Constructivist covers were mainly designed with photomontages by Semen Semenov-Menes 1895-1982 one of the leading Soviet masters of movie poster design. Together with Stenberg brothers he created the well-known style of advertising posters for Mezhrabpom films. The journal was issued monthly between 1926 and 1930 and included short stories poetry international current affairs including scathing attacks on class enemies as well as advice on how to run a home family health needlework and recipes. Each issue also includes a section on fashion with vivid illustrations reflecting the latest 1920s style some of which is 'Slavicised' with floral embroidery.<br /> Moscow, Ogonek, 1929. unknown
Bookseller reference : 112309
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[SPORT- FEMMES] FULGUR PHOTO PRESSE
PHOTOGRAPHIE ORIGINALE DE LA FÊTE NATIONALE DE LA SPORTIVE, VUE GENERALE DE 5000 JEUNES FILLES ALIGNEES "AU CORDEAU" AU PARC DES PRINCES, PARIS LE 5-7-1942
COPENHAGUE PARIS 1942 une photographie originale en noir, format : 18 x 13 cm, avec une étiquette d'explication de la photo tapée à la machine en noir, collée au dos, prise le 5-7-1942 , avec cachet violet au dos "autorisé par la censure allemande le 5-7-1942 " et cachet de l'agence "FULGUR" photo presse du gouvernement de vichy,
Bookseller reference : 21578
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[SPORTS], [WOMEN IN]
Girl Athletes & Women Record Breakers Photo Collection 1900-1940
1900. WOMEN IN SPORTS Curated photographic collection of 18 rare vintage photos celebrating girls and women in sports. Some are identified with names and locations. Locations include New Jersey Canada New York California Massachusettes. Dated approximately 1900-1940. Various sizes; mostly between 8.5" x 11" and 6.5x 8.5" with four smaller photos at 2.25" x 3.5". Black and white silver gelatin photographs. Many pieces show uniformed team photos and action shots documenting girls' increasingly rigorous participation in active sports in the first half of the 20th century. Sports include winter skiing ice skating fencing equestrian and polo bowling swimming track and field rugby. Many of the photos have extended captions on the verso. For example one photo features several Canadian swimmers in uniform in 1930 with the caption: "Swimming champions add to picturesque country at Lake Louise Canada. They are left to right: Agnes Geraghty Olympic swimmer; Catherine Ames Like Lindstrom Metropolitan Distance Champion; Constance Hanf Junior Metropolitan Champion; Eleanor Holm National Champion back stroke 100 and 200 yards; Georgia Colemen National Champion Diver. Miss Coleman is From Los Angeles while the other are members of the Women's Swimming Association New York. Another caption on a photo of several polo players states: "Southern California co-eds to form polo team sorority women at the University of Southern California are preparing to invade one of the few remaining sport sanctuaries of men- polo." Also included is a short of the American Women's Olympic Fencing Team which include: MMarion Lloyd Muriel Guggolz and Dorothy Locke. <br /> <br /> Curated photographic archive celebrating female athletes who overcame stereotypes of women as the "weaker" sex. Because early social constructs regulated physical activity for women few were able to rise up as professional sports competitors until the 20th century. This archive is a testament to these women's historic strides revealing their early physical training their membership in early sport clubs as well as their most daring record-breaking feats. The collection depicts women participating in during the early 20th century. unknown
Bookseller reference : 15852
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[Status of Women]
REPORT OF THE MANITOBA VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Canada: MB Volunteer Committee 1968. Ed. not stated. Paperback. viii 193 pp. Trade pb 8vo. Covers sunned soiled spine creased occasional pencilling; good. Submitted to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. MB Volunteer Committee paperback
Bookseller reference : 9900022734
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[SUFFRAGE -- WOMEN]. [HOOKER, Isabella Beecher; BRADWELL, Myra; HOWE, Judge John H., MILL, John Stuart].
Report of the Executive Committee Annual Meeting of the . . . held at Hartford September 9 1870. Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association No. 2. . . .
Hartford CT: Printed by Case Lockwood & Brainard 1871. 8vo. 24 pp. Self-printed softcovers sewn at spine slight age toning very slight dustsoiling still NF copy. First edition of the second scarce Women’s Suffrage tract published by the pioneering Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association CWSA in 1871 subsequent to their second Annual Meeting held in 1870. This tract features the extended letter to Chicago IL suffragette and editor Myra Bradwell from Judge Howe of Wyoming detailing women serving as jurors on a murder trial jury after the passage of the Wyoming Territory’s 1869 Suffrage Act and that they discharged their duties with skill and also refutes the spurious claims that the men and women jurors had been improperly sequestered together for 4 days and nights. Following the publication of this tract Howe was replaced as a judge in the First District by Joseph Fisher a Union Army veteran who refused to recognize women being in the jury pool or allowed to set on juries even though they did have the right to vote. Isabella has also incorporated suffrage reports from the National Society for Woman Suffrage in England including specific mentions of petitions before Parliament in 1869 & 1870 on the admission of women to the suffrage by Lydia E. Becker along with excerpts of speeches by Mill delivered to the London Society of Woman Suffrage.Hooker closes with a report on a proposal by the Executive Committee to send women to meet with small local committees to “obtain signatures to the petitions for a 16th Amendment and to circulate tracts on the subject of Equal Suffrage.†See: Jessica Jenkins The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage in Connecticut Connecticut Explored Vol. 14 No. 2 Spring 2016; Kim Viner Women on the Jury: Wyoming Makes History Again Wyoming Historical Society Encyclopedia Jan. 23 2020. Printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, paperback
Bookseller reference : 60730
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[Tencin (Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin marquise de)].
Les Malheurs de l’amour.
Amsterdam, , 1747. 2 vol. in-12 de (4)-247 pp. ; (2)-319 pp., veau brun, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque).
Bookseller reference : 43154
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[TELEPHONE TECHNOLOGY/WOMEN]. POOLE, Joseph.
The practical telephone handbook and guide to the telephonic exchange. . . .
London & New York: Whittaker & Co. George Bell & Sons Macmillan & Co. 1895. 12mo. xv 1 9-347 7 pp. plus 44 pp. publisher’s catalogue including endpapers. Frontisp. 287 text woodcut engravings & four folding plates. Blue-gray publisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling front cover & spine minor shelfwear dustsoiling still VG- copy. Second edition revised & enlarged of this informative Victorian handbook on telephones telephone exchanges battery systems and more. Poole has included extended comments on the development of operator switchboards multiple switchboards and the use of women operators for the equipment. Whittaker & Co., George Bell & Sons, Macmillan & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60738
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[Texana] [Women in Rare Books] Smedley, Betty
Lot of 5 Catalogues and 18 Printed Lists from Austin Bookseller Betty Smedley
Austin: Betty Smedley 1980. 5 catalogues staple bound in printed card wrappers and 18 lists on legal size paper stapled along the top edge all printed in sepia. Scattered illustrations. Some toning and browning else generally very good. <br /> <br /> An important trove from rare bookseller Betty Smedley 1888-1985 who operated out of her home in Austin during the height of the Texana boom. She specialized in Texas fine printing especially the work of Carl Hertzog and J. Evetts. Haley. This set includes her scarce first 5 catalogues and a run of special lists: 23 5-10 12 15-19 21 22 and 25 1972-1985 and an out of sequence Winter 1973 list.  <br /> <br /> . Betty Smedley unknown
Bookseller reference : 7041
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[TEXAS -- WOMEN]. VIELE, [Teresa Griffin].
“Following the drum:†a glimpse of frontier life.
New York: Rudd & Carleton 310 Broadway 1858. 8vo. 256 pp. plus 12 pp. publisher’s illustrated ads. Gray-brown pebbled publisher’s cloth borders & insignia embossed in blind gilt lettering on spine minor chipping head of spine soiling some edgewear sunning still a G unsophisticated copy unusually bright clean interior former ownership pencil markings on endpapers. First edition of this “vivid and often critical memoir of the Vieles’ Texas years. Her account of life at Ringgold Barracks comments on everything from travel and landscape flora and fauna and food flavored with red ants that tasted something like caraway seed to Mexican neighbors Comanche Raiders Jose Maria Jesus Carbajal and the Merchants War. Griffin Viele 1831-1906 was a precocious and determined young woman dubbed “cette terrible Teresa†by family and friends married to Egbert Ludovicus Viele later Brigadier General during the Civil War. She later presided over a literary salon in Paris and oversaw the education and career of her son Francis Viele-Griffin who became a leading poet and writer of the French symbolist school. See: Howes V92; Sandra Myres Teresa Griffin Viele: Life and Literary Contributions Handbook of Texas August 12 2020. Rudd & Carleton, 310 Broadway, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63526
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[TEXTILES & WEAVING -- WOMEN]. FREY, Berta.
Designing and drafting for handweavers: basic principles of cloth construction.
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1958. 8vo. xii 225 1 pp. With over 350 text illustrations weaving diagrams sketches and photographs. Black publisher’s cloth white & blue lettering & decoration minor rubbing shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by The Strimbans using handwoven textile by Virginia D. Aldridge minor shelfwear minor chipping head & foot of spine slight scuffing still VG/VG copy from library of Agnes Parsons w/ the original advance order form folded and laid-in. First edition of one of the scarcest and most significant manuals for handweaving in the Mid-20th Century. Following World War II and with increasing interest in designing and weaving textiles the author demonstrated the basic principles of cloth construction by focusing on harness-controlled patterns and four-harness fabrics. Frey 1893-1972 began as an occupational therapist in woodworking at the U.S. Army’s Walter Reed Hospital and began learning and teaching handweaving as well as training her students to construct weaving looms. After moving to New York she worked in the textile industry and later opened her own design studio taught weaving and by 1940 was one of the co-founders of the New York Guild of Handweavers whose first year’s weaving programs focused on studying Native American Weaving of the Cherokee Tribe. See: Diane Kirschner History of the NY Handweavers Guild 2022; The Macmillan Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 59253
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[TEXTILES -- SAMPLE MANUSCRIPT/WOMEN]. [YAKUBEC, Luella Midgely].
Home Economics Lab. Section 5. Sample weaving & fabrics lab notebook for course work at the Clothing & Textiles Division School of Home Economics North Dakota Agricultural College at the end of the 1930s.
McHenry ND: Luella Frances Midgely ca. 1939. Two parts. 4to. 46 pp unpaginated.; 48 pp unpaginated. written in ink & pencil manuscript throughout some mimeograph & dittoed coursework sheets all filled out extensively in manuscript second part loose pages clipped together at end providing rough draft notes for the first part report. With 77 fabric & textile samples tipped-in all identified in pen or pencil including two hand-woven samples in yarn demonstrating plain weave & basket weave mounted & tipped-in 2 weaving diagrams. Original split-pin post-binder hand-written title on front cover edgewear rubbing slight bumping to couple corners still VG exemplar. A well-arranged and designed fabrics and weaving sample lab book written and created by Ms. Midgely 1919-2014 in a fabrics design course while attending the North Dakota Agricultural College from 1937-1942. The Clothing & Textiles Division offered courses intending to train Home Economics teachers fashion designers and textile workers at the end of the Great Depression and would later grow into a well-respected program in fashion design at the present-day North Dakota State University. This lab notebook which secured Ms. Midgely an “A†grade touches on fabric construction types of weaves patterns satin weave gauze swivel pile weaves yarn variations finishes varieties of silks hosiery and more. Luella Frances Midgely, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54997
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[TEXTILES & WEAVING -- WOMEN]. ATWATER, Mary Meigs.
Mary Meigs Atwater recipe book: patterns for handweavers. . . .
Salt Lake City UT & Garneill MT: Mary M. Atwater Weavers’ Guild Distributed by Wheelwright Lithographing Co. 1957. 4to. 152 pp sections unpaginated & separately numbered. Illustrated title weaving illustrations diagrams & instructions throughout. Flexible yellow illustrated softcovers black illustration & lettering on front cover black comb binding as issued minor dustsoiling shelfwear still NF copy from library of Catherine Hourigan. First edition thus of this surprisingly scarce and posthumously published & updated series of correspondence lectures on weaving by the noted “Dean of American Handweaving†originally issued from 1932-1936 and considered by the author to be her “most useful contribution to the art of weaving.†Meigs Atwater 1878-1956 studied art and ceramics in Paris attended the Chicago Art Institute and was studying to become a muralist in Paris when she met mining engineer Max Atwater. Mary Atwater founded the Shuttle-Craft Guild in Basin MT prior to World War I as an outlet for her art but also provide handweaving instruction for Western women in local Montana mining communities. In her weaving instructions issued here she revived double weave Summer and Winter and a weave structure she called the “Bronson Weave.†In addition by the early 1930’s she would bring back into popularity what she termed “Crackle†weave. This pattern book also includes weaving instructions for rugs day bed covers upholstery fabrics drapes and much more. Mary Atwater was also an advocate for women’s health and even wrote a mystery “Crime in Corn Weather†set in a small Iowa farm community addressing the fallout from abortion and drug addiction. See: Betty Atwater Biehl Tribute to Mary M. Atwater 1973; Mary Jo Reiter Biography: Weaving a Life 1992. Mary M. Atwater Weavers’ Guild, Distributed by Wheelwright Lithographing Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 59251
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[TEXTILES & WEAVING -- MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN/WOMEN]. SELANDER, Malin.
Swedish handweaving. Translated by Karin Haakonsen-Melander.
Goteborg Sweden: Wezata Forlag 1959. Tall 8vo. 128 pp. Colour plates weaving patterns & designs photo illustrations text diagrams throughout. Quarter-beige cloth over colour-illustrated boards black lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing to lower fore-edges still NF copy signed by author on ffep. First edition in English signed of this exceptional and influential Mid-20th-Century work on Swedish handweaving and design. Selander heavily influenced American weavers not only with her Weaving patterns 1956 and the present title but her extended workshop and lecture tour in 1960 through 28 cities. Not only did she introduce techniques of colour blending of strands to enrich the colour pallet but also advised on how to design their own cloth patterns. See: Marion Marzolf The Swedish Presence in 20th-Century American Weaving Textile Society of American Symposium Proceedings 314 2006. Wezata Forlag, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 59254
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[The Birmingham Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women] [Mrs. Ince, wife of William F
Female suffrage; printed pamphlet. Mrs. Ince's Case.
'Printed for the Birmingham Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.' 'Printed by JOSIAH ALLEN jun. 9 & 10 Livery Street Birmingham.' Undated 1862 or later. 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium with drophead title. In good condition lightly-aged disbound. No copy traced. ['Printed for the Birmingham Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.'] ['Printed by J unknown
Bookseller reference : 16139
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[The Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women] [Susannah Palmer; Alexander Ireland, Man
Female suffrage; printed pamphlet. The Case of Susannah Palmer.
'Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.' 'A. Ireland & Co. Printers Manchester.' 1869. 8pp. 12mo. Drophead title beneath heading: 'Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.' In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. The last three paragraphs relating to Palmer's incarceration at Newgate have been crossed through but are still entirely legible indicating that the present copy was distributed after her release. Begins: 'THE following case was reported in the Times of the 15th January 1869:- CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT JAN. 14. OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice KEATING. Sarah Palmer 40 was indicted for feloniously wounding James Palmer with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. .' Last two paragraph scored through the first regarding Mrs Palmer's incarceration in Newgate and the second relating to 'A Committee . formed to assist Susannah Palmer'. Only two copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat at the BL and Yale. ['Printed for the Committee in favour of Amending the Law relating to the Property of Married Women.'] 'A. Ireland & Co., Printe paperback
Bookseller reference : 16140
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[The Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] [Alexander Ireland, Manchester prin
Female suffrage; printed pamphlet. Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the General Committee September 13th 1872.
The Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women Manchester: Alexander Ireland and Co. Printers. 1872. 11pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Three copies on COPAC and one copy on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market. [The Executive Committee for amending the Law with respect to the Property of Married Women] Manchester: Alexander Ireland and C paperback
Bookseller reference : 16229
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[THEATER -- POSTCARDS/WOMEN].
Album of 36 artistic colored post cards of popular actresses faithfully reproduced from original photographs. First Series. . . .
London: G.D. & D. ca. 1905. 4to. 6 leaves composed of 36 colour-tinted postcards w/ perforated edges. Green softcovers yapp edges gilt lettering on front cover & spine very minor shelfwear rust marks at spine from staples slight sunning to fore-edges still VG copy stapled as issued. Early edition of this very scarce and complete souvenir album of colour-tinted postcards of famed Edwardian actresses. Such actresses as a very young Billie Burke of Wizard of Oz fame in her breakout School Girl role 1905 Pauline Chase before she shot to stardom as Peter Pan from 1906-1913 as well as many others including Julia Neilson Zena Dare Doris Stocker Lettice Fairfax Sybil Arundale Gertie Miller Gaynor Rowlands just before her death in 1905 Evelyn Millard Sara Brooke Winifred Hare and many others. G.D. & D., paperback
Bookseller reference : 46855
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[THEATRE -- CALIFORNIA/WOMEN]. IJAMS, Mattie [Martha Adelaide]
Ces diables de verbes par Mlle. Mattie Ijams English version by Ernestine Wollenberg. Girls’ High School Auditorium April 17th 1896.
San Francisco CA: Girls’ High School 1896. 8vo. 2 15 1 pp. Numerous text illustrations illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art showing a devil dancing with girl in white and rear cover featuring beautifully rendered Victorian woman in red & black dress polk-a-dot umbrella reminiscent of Denslow signed E. Pitchford slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this exceedingly scarce theatre program for a satirical production about a California girl’s struggle to learn French featuring the delightful illustrations of fellow Girls’ High School students Emily H. Pitchford Hussey 1878-1956 whose artwork is reminiscent of W.W. Denslow and Ethel Frances Hanks 1878-1952. This wonderful 19th-century program also features ads vor City of Paris Dry Goods at G. Verdier & Co. Moss Gloves on Market and Newman & Levinson bathing suits for women on 209 Sutter St. Girls High School was founded in 1864 and by 1896 was located in a four-story red brick building at Geary O’Farrel & Scott nearly leveled in 1906 Fire & Earthquake. No copies located in Worldcat. Girls’ High School, paperback
Bookseller reference : 55632
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[THEATRE - WOMEN]. NORDICA, Lillian [NORTON, Lillian Allen].
Lillian Nordica’s hints to singers. Together with an account of Lillian Nordica’s training for the opera as told in the letters of the singer and her mother Amanda Allen Norton. Transcribed by William Armstrong.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1923. 8vo. xix 1 167 1 pp. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Quarter red over green cloth printed paper labels on frnt cvr & spine slght shlfwr w/ d.j. cover art photos of Lillian Nordica mnr chppng hd & ft of spine edgewear still a VG/VG- copy from the library of the opera singer Marion Talley. First edition of this posthumously published book of advice on how to develop a career as an opera singer and the numerous letters reflecting Madame Nordica’s career. Nordica 1857-1914 was one of the foremost sopranos at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. She died on her final tour of pneumonia in Jakarta Indonesia. Marion Talley 1906-1983 was discovered in Kansas City Missouri and at age 19 became the youngest principal female performer in the Met’s history to that point she also starred in some films but was not photogenic and her career declined after the 1920s. E.P. Dutton & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44523
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[THEATRE -- CARTER, Mrs. Leslie (DUDLEY, Caroline Louise)/WOMEN], [BELASCO, David, BERTON, Pierre, & SIMON, Charles].
Mrs. Leslie Carter as Zaza: with a history of her stage career and the successful production of the play. . . ; Harlem Opera House. Last appearance here of Mrs. Leslie Carter as Zaza in David Belasco’s play Week commencing Monday Evening December 24. Theatre Program.
New York: David Belasco; Harlem Opera House 1899; 1901. Two pieces. 1st. Oblong folio. 16 pp unpaginated photo illustrations throughout red illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art and lettering in dark red yapp edges minor dustsoiling minor edgewear; 2nd -- 4to. 4 pp unpaginated. Illustrated ads printed on light pink-coloured paper minor dustsoiling couple minor closed tears edgewear still VG set. First editions thus of these scarce theatre programmes detailing the life and successful rising career of the actress often called “The American Sarah Bernhardt†who appeared in wildly successful The Heart of Maryland in 1898 the long running Zaza beginning in 1898 and later Madame du Barry afterwards. She was the Progressive Era’s great dramatic actress and would later star in silent films and vaudeville as well. Her film biography appeared in 1940 as the Warner Bros. film Lady with the Red Hair starring Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley and others. David Belasco; Harlem Opera House], paperback
Bookseller reference : 52060
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[Theatre / Women / Printing]
First Appearance in America Monday Ev'g October 7th 1889 of Mr. and Mrs. Kendal and Their Own Company in "A Scrap of Paper".
<p>Gold silk wrappers bound at the top with pale blue ribbons with fringe at the foot. B&w illustrations. Light creasing to wrappers and lower edge of leaves; faint dampstain to front wrapper and first leave; minor spotting and a few short edge tears to leaves; Good.</p><p>A program for <em>A Scrap of Paper: A Comedy in Three Acts</em> which was adapted from Sardou's <em>Les Pattes de Mouche</em>. The play featured the first American performance of Dame Madge Kendal nee Robertson known for her comedic timing and virtuoso acting skills. Add in the delicious irony of a play with this title being printed on silk and the glorious advertisements for corsets Singer sewing machines and Weber piano fortes and . chef's kiss.</p><p>Not located in OCLC although we find a program from a later performance at Dartmouth.</p> Press of Rogers & Sherwood
Bookseller reference : 3400
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[TRANSPORTATION & ADVERTISING/WOMEN AUTHORS]. EARLE, Alice Morse.
Stage-coach and tavern days. . . .
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1900. Thick 8vo. xvi 2 449 1 pp. Title in red & black. Frontisp. numerous plates text illustrations photos. Pictorial light gray cloth illustrated & lettered in green front cover & spine t.e.g. minor darkening & scuffing to spine shelfwear minor soiling to covers very slight bumping to couple corners still VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition of this well-illustrated work examining traveling by stage-coach and tavern life in Colonial America with examples drawn from Massachusetts Rhode Island Maryland Connecticut New York New Hampshire and other colonies. Ms. Earle addresses typical tavern food accommodations and their issues drinking Puritanism attitudes over taverns and also examines the development of packhorses Conestoga Wagon stage-coaches and other wagons in America. She concludes with fascinating chapter on Tavern ghosts. The Macmillan Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60009
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[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. FRASER, Mrs. Hugh [Mary Crawford].
A diplomatist’s wife in many lands.
New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1913. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xiii 1 354; x 324 pp. Red ribbed cloth gilt lettering on spines t.e.g. minor shelfwear still a NF set w/ bookplate on front pastdown of P.E. Bowles. First edition of this fascinating memoir of life and travel by Mary Crawford Fraser d. 1922 wife of the British Minister to Japan was well known for her missionary efforts in Asia. Of particular interest is the substantial portion of the second volume devoted to their life in Peking & China in the 1870s. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 46076
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[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. PECK, Annie S.[mith].
A search for the apex of America. High mountain climbing in Peru and Bolivia including the conquest of Huascaran with some observations on the country and people below. With numerous illustrations.
New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1911. Thick 8vo. xviii 370 pp. Frontisp. photo 1 large folding map numerous photo illustration. Illustrated gray cloth w/ image of mountain & glaciers on front cover outlined in gilt & white gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor bumping head of spine wear & minor bumping to corners endpapers renewed ex-lib stamps on versos of plates maps & title still G copy. First edition of this compelling memoir by the first person to scale Peru’s Mount Huascaran after 4 years and 5 attempts. At the time because of previously inaccurate measurements she believed that she had climbed the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and broken the world’s altitude record for women and men. Peck 1850-1935 noted mountain climber adventurer and suffragette first climbed Mount Shasta in 1888 ascended the Matterhorn in 1895 peaks in Mexico founded the American Alpine Club and even raised a Votes for Women pennant on Peru’s Mount Coropuna in 1911 at the age of 61. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 47018
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[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. PECK, Annie S.[mith].
A search for the apex of America. High mountain climbing in Peru and Bolivia including the conquest of Huascaran with some observations on the country and people below. With numerous illustrations.
New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1911. Thick 8vo. xviii 370 pp. Frontisp. photo 1 large folding map numerous photo illustration. Illustrated gray cloth w/ image of mountain & glaciers on front cover outlined in gilt & white gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor rubbing shelfwear ex-lib markings on spine rear endpapers small stamp on title still a G copy. First edition of this compelling memoir by the first person to scale Peru’s Mount Huascaran after 4 years and 5 attempts. At the time because of previously inaccurate measurements she believed that she had climbed the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere and broken the world’s altitude record for women and men. Peck 1850-1935 noted mountain climber adventurer and suffragette first climbed Mount Shasta in 1888 ascended the Matterhorn in 1895 peaks in Mexico founded the American Alpine Club and even raised a Votes for Women pennant on Peru’s Mount Coropuna in 1911 at the age of 61. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 46844
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[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. DODD, Anna Bowman.
In and out of Three Normandy Inns. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart and other artists.
Boston: Little Brown & Co. 1899. 12mo. viii 4 394 2 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Frntsp. numerous plates text illusts. Illust. white cloth armorial illusts. on frnt cvrs of Norman coats of arms in blue silver red & gilt gilt lettrng on spine t.e.g. vry mnr shlfwr w/ blue cloth d.j. gilt & silver armorial on spine gilt lettrng slght soilng NF/VG copy. First edition early printing of this charming travelogue by a Victorian woman through the Norman countryside with the scarce dustjacket. Little, Brown & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 43117
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[TRAVEL - WOMEN]. HOFFMAN, Ruth & Helen.
Our Arabian nights. With illustrations by the author.
New York: Carrick & Evans Inc. 1940. 8vo. 307 1 pp. Illust. title numerous text illustrations. Beige-coloured cloth red black & white colour plate mounted front cover red black & white spine label minor shelfwear minor bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. cover art by the Hoffmans minor chipping to couple corners minor scuffing couple closed tears price-clipped VG/G copy. First edition of this often-amusing and occasionally shocking memoir of the twin sisters lives in Baghdad Iraq where Ruth Hoffman’s husband was an engineer building railroads. They mixed with the Prime Minister native princes Royal Air Forde officers and bedouin chieftains including the harem and assembled a menagerie of birds cats a wild boar gazelles storks rabbits and peacocks. Carrick & Evans, Inc., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60837
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[TRAVEL -- WOMEN]. FRASER, Mrs. Hugh (Mary Crawford).
The custom of the country. Tales of new Japan.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1906. 8vo. vii 1 305 1 pp. Illust. tan cloth w/ illust. of Kabuki dancer on frnt cvr Japanese woman in kimono on spine illust. in red brwn & blk tan lettrng vry mnr dustsoilng to fore-edges w/ d.j. uppr & lwr mrgns crpdd NF/G w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. Reprint edition w/ the exceedingly scarce dustjacket of these tales of new Japan by Mary Crawford Fraser d. 1922 wife of the British Minister and had exceptional opportunities to observe the people and customs of Japan. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32166
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[TRAVEL -- WOMEN]. ABBOTT, Katharine M.[ixer].
Twentieth Century trolley trips: Boston the Blue Hills of Milton and Plymouth Lexington Concord Medford Lowell Marblehead Gloucester Newburyport Hampton Beach Dover Rochester N.H.
Boston MA: Charles B. Webster & Co. 1901. Oblong 12mo. 6 x 4 in. 128 pp. With photo illustrations text illustrations maps 1 large folding map in red & black at rear illustrated ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of young Progressive Era woman holding umbrella looking down upon her lodgings ads on back cover minor dustsoiling slight shelfwear still NF bright copy. First edition thus of this updated travel guide by Abbott 1865-1913 who wrote extensively on walking bicycle riding and traveling by trolley throughout Massachusetts and New England. She includes specific travel notes on the scenery and “places to see†as well as breezy notes on all the local areas a visitor would find when hopping on and off the trolley lines. Charles B. Webster & Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 62628
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[Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala.); Women of Trinity Guild]
The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Second Edition
Florence Ala: The Church 1931. Octavo 22.5 x 14.5 cm. x 151 xxix pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated Second Edition likely a corrected printing of the first edition. An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous with the same 151 pages. Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread Okra Gumbo Bishop Whipple Pudding Ambrosia Owendaw Asparagus Loaf Blackeye Peas Elder Blossom Wine Creole Pralines. But it would be misleading to truncate the story there for the Women of Trinity Guild could venture out as eagerly as their counterparts elsewhere from Almond Bisque and Lobster Canapes to Queen of Trifles and Banberry sic Tarts. Marginalia on page 110 comments on the Sponge Cake fine “…grand but a lot of workâ€. For more local color an advertisement on the rear of wrappers is for “Dowdy’s Pit Bar-B-Q Fish-Chili Lee Highway.†~ Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama’s northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama – Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa – Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. ~ Several pages splash-stained but text unobscured throughout. Stapled in blue wrappers titled in black; stained and faded but nonetheless intact. Good. A lengthy gift presentation handwritten in ink on page ix addressed to “a bride†as per page 48 with corresponding recommendations marking several recipes. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this second edition though one copy of the first edition and three copies of the revised third edition of 1943 are reported; none of these editions in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown
Bookseller reference : 5467
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[Trinity Episcopal Church (Florence, Ala.); Women of Trinity Guild.]
The Florence Cook Book. Edited by Women of Trinity Guild of Trinity Parish. Revised Third Edition
Florence Alabama: The Church 1943. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. 171 v pages. Advertisements. Errata list page 1. Cover title. Table of contents. Third Edition. A generous helping of more than nine hundred recipes clearly an act of perseverance to review and produce during wartime. Southern favorites stand in relief: Cracklin Bread Hush Puppies Ambrosia Daube Glacé Cabbage Au Gratin Creole Peas Fried Bananas Black Bottom Pie Pecan Cake. But this is a substantial revision of the second edition and the Women of Trinity Guild were noting with interest recipes from beyond their immediate sphere as much as was the case anywhere else. Three early instances of Italian-American spaghetti exemplify the cuisine's transition from "peasant" food to household staple. Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama's northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama – Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa – Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. Several handwritten corrections in pencil otherwise clean and bright internally. In stapled black-lettered red wrappers worn at the corners and with some good sized chips to the spine. Front panel of wrapper is illustrated with a photograph of Wesleyan Hall University of North Alabama. Good only. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the present revised edition and one copy of the first edition 1929; a copy of the second edition 1931 is also known; none of these editions is included in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown
Bookseller reference : 5466
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[UNIFORMS -- HOTEL, RESTAURANT & HOSPITAL/WOMEN]. [LEVY, Alfred J. & LEVY, Mont].
Angelica washable service apparel. . . price list general catalog No. 835. . . .
St. Louis MO: Angelica Jacket Co. 1935. 4to. 9 x 12 in. 6 14 8 15-29 1 pp. 1st 4 pp. on pink colour-tinted paper colour-illustrated throughout double-page centerfold illustrations for Angelica wait staff uniforms inserted as landscape folio sheets minor chipping & tears to fore-edges corners minor dustsoiling still G copy. First edition of this brightly illustrated catalogue for uniforms and service apparel during the Great Depression featuring stylish uniforms for men and women wait staff as well as doctors nurses hospital attendants utility dresses chef’s aprons and more. With most sewn from durable and long wearing cotton duck cloth the company presents here multiple service ensembles for kitchen staff dining rooms and taverns many with decidedly Art Deco lines and patterns. The company originated in 1878 when Carmine Ostari Angelica 1850-1883 created an entirely new cook’s uniform for her husband Cherubino Angelica d. 1898 while cooking for the railroad based out of St. Louis MO. Featuring a tall white hat with a crown double-breasted white coat cloth buttons sewn to the sides and reversible layers of cloth to protect from heat and grease splatter and even cuffs which could be turned down to function as hot pads. Within a couple years Cherubino with Carmine supplying the uniforms founded the Angelica Corporation and after her death his second wife Therese Hirsch del Angelica b. 1855 would join the company and oversaw the introduction of the iconic Harvey Girls uniforms. After Levy and his brother purchased the business and the sewing machines in 1903 the company quickly expanded to dominate the service uniform market and still is one of the primary suppliers of uniforms across the country. See: Angelica Corporation History International Directory of Company Histories Vol. 15 1996. Angelica Jacket Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 57734
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[United Farm Women of Manitoba]; Josephine Gibson (editor), et al.
Recipes Contributed by the Members of the United Farm Women of Manitoba Compiled by the Executive
Winnipeg Manitoba: Executive United Farm Women of Manitoba 1929. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 3 4-166 1; leaves 167-172 originally blank now filled with charming manuscript recipes. Small octavo 22 x 15 cm. Original lacquered cloth boards with teal lettering; printed index to rear pastedown. Front board detached; lacking initial six leaves; rear board present but tenderly attached; textblock remains sound. The group's "first cook book" it comprises a rich selection of recipes compiled by the women’s auxiliary of the United Farmers of Manitoba founded 1903 with each recipe attributed to its contributor and hometown. Sections include Bread Buns Biscuits and Muffins Cookies Pies Cakes Icing and Fillings Sandwich Fillings Puddings and Desserts Egg Dishes Cheese Dishes Soups Meat and Fish Vegetables Salads and Dressings Canning Jams Pickles and Candy. Richly illustrated with many period advertisements by a varierty of local provincial and national businesses and firms including an early advertisement for the Manitoba Telephone System farm implements cooking supplies e.g. Purity Flour home water systems and other period firms and products. Covers rubbed occasional light spotting to leaves but otherwise clean and legible; a delightful and rare artifact of rural women’s domestic and cooperative life. Overall fair. <br /> <br /> <br/><br/>¶ Bibliographical note: Elizabeth Driver records copies in four public repositories see Citation No. M57.1; see also Peel #5388. Executive, United Farm Women of Manitoba hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7564
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[UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT] [PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN]
Four Consultations: Private Employment Opportunities; New Patterns in Volunteer Work; Portrayal of Women by the Mass Media; Problems of Negro Women
Washington DC: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office 1963. First Edition. Quarto 26cm.; original off-white pictorial staplebound wrappers; v138pp. About Fine. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office unknown
Bookseller reference : 26284
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[UNITED STATES NAVY -- WOMEN].
The Ship’s Bell. Recruit training for women in the Navy. Company 141 31st Battalion 3rd Regiment; Company 142 32nd Battalion 3rd Regiment.
Bainbridge MD: United States Naval Training Center 1953. 4to. 70 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated and printed in blue black & white throughout. Embossed & illustrated blue cloth silver lettering on front cover minor rubbing bumping & wear to corners still VG- copy. First edition of this scarce year book for Navy Women training at the end of the Korean War. Of particular interest is the history of WAVE recruit training by Almira B. Davis. United States Naval Training Center, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 48532
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[US. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Federal Women Program] U. S.
Historical Women in Health Education and Welfare
Washington: Office of Equal Employment Opportunity 1975. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Stapled pamphlet in white card wrappers printed in blue and red; 22pp. Minor dustiness to wrappers but overall Near Fine. <br /> <br /> "Prepared by HEW Federal Women's Program for Bicentennial and International Women's Year." With portraits and biographies of Elizabeth Blackwell Sarah Josephine Baker Jane A. Delano Dorothea Dix Mary E. Mahoney Ann Preston Mary Rose Mary Harris Thompson Isabel Andreu de Aguilar Mary McLeod Bethune Ana Roque de Duprey Edith Nelson Alice Robertson Mary Church Terell Lucy Wheelock MAria Martinex de Perez Almirioty Alice C. Fletcher Anna Arnold Hedgeman Petra Howard Luisa Lee Schuyler Mary E. Switzer and Harriet Tubman. Office of Equal Employment Opportunity unknown
Bookseller reference : 56900
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[Utah] [Women] Bate, Kerry William
The Women
Salt Lake City UT: The University of Utah Press 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. SIGNED. 392pp. Quarto 26 cm Pale green paper over boards. The covers are very slightly cocked and there is a brief notation in pen on the rear free endpaper. In the dust jacket with minor surface wear. From the dust jacket- "Kerry Bate proceeds from the premise that a story centering on the women of the clan can provide fresh perspective and insight. He portrays real people with well-rounded flawed characters; builds from deep research; writes with a sense of style; and includes the rich context and detail of these lives. His main subjects are four generations of impressive women: the pioneer Catherine Campbell Steele; her daughter Young Elizabeth the first Mormon child born in Utah; Kate an accomplished community leader; and Sarah a gifted seamstress trapped in an unhappy marriage."<br /> <br /> With some references to polygamy.<br /> <br /> Inscribed by the author to the late historian of Utah and the American West Will Bagley on the title page. The University of Utah Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 66050 ISBN : 1607815168 9781607815167
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[Utopian Sci-Fi] [Women Authors] Henley, Carra Depuy
A Man From Mars
Los Angeles: Printed by B.R. Baumgardt & Co 1901. First edition. 8vo 14 66 1. Frontis and decorated title in two colors being a conjugate pair on plate paper. Pictorial gray paper boards printed in two colors. Spine ends chipped lower corner bumped edges rubbed. Some toning to prelims else clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Quite scarce utopian novel printed in Los Angeles and penned by Carra Depuy Henley 1869-1905. Though the copyright date states 1891 this story appeared in book form in 1901.  We find little about Henley other than she died in her Los Angeles home at the age of 35 and this was her only output. Locke in his Voyages in Space describes the story:<br /> <br /> "An accident enables a man to have clairvoyant visions of Mars which is an extension of Heaven - a paradise of departed souls where bodies are translucent. The scientists of Mars have overcome the force of gravity enabling them to ride the 'ether waves' on electric currents and other achievements include prolongation and creation of life and transmutation of metals listed rather that described."<br /> <br /> An interesting fantasy publication by a woman author on the West Coast at the turn of the century. OCLC cites 6 holdings.<br /> <br /> Bleiler checklist pg 98. Locke Spectrum of Fantasy 110-11 Voyages in Space 105. Printed by B.R. Baumgardt & Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 7319
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[VAUDEVILLE -- SILENT FILMS/ WOMEN]. BRYAN [STREETER], Blanche.
Blanche Bryan Leading Lady Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. Real Photo Postcard featuring 16 miniature images of Bryan with banner at lower fore-edge for the company.
Chicago IL & Santa Monica CA: Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter ca. 1915. One silver gelatin real photo postcard sepia-tinted AZO stamp box on verso bearing four triangles at corners point upwards carefully trimmed to 3.5 x 4.5 in. as advertising trade card slightly over-exposed minor dustsoiling still very bright image from the collection of Blanche Bryan Streeter. This promotional sample RPPC advertising the talents of the Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. prima donna with miniature “head-shot†photos tracing her career from Vaudeville ingenue to successful singer along the circuit. Bryan 1879-1976 starred and promoted with her husband Morrill Streeter 1866-1948 playing in productions across the Midwest Oklahoma and Southwest. She starred in three silent movies in 1915 including The Man in the Attic The Sons of Satan and His Vindication. Their “Land of Joy Girls†ran in 1917 for months and were noted for their magnificent costumes & scenery from the Rose Company of Chicago. The pair were also well known at the time for their 1923 automobile vaudeville tour “Plugging Expedition†through Illinois Missouri Colorado Texas New Mexico and California featuring well-appointed automobile and trailer with camping equipment and supplies. Streeter-Bryan Stock Co., Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter, unknown
Bookseller reference : 59794
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[Victorian Women; Calendars; Chromolithography]
Victorian Women Chromolithograph Calendar
Chicago: The Winters Co 1896. Sheets. Very Good. Chromolithograph calendar 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8†x 11.25†or 20 cm by 29 cm. Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter spring summer and fall in the latest fashion of the day. The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald issued on Dec. 8th 1895 the spring sheet was the supplement to the Boston Herald issued on Dec. 15 1895 the summer sheet a supplement to the Herald issued on Dec. 22 1895 and the fall sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald issued on Dec. 29 1895. All sheets are tied together by a thin pink ribbon. Each sheet has a small calendar in the left corner with three months represented on each sheet. The winter sheet depicts a lady standing in a public square with a church and municipal building in the background spring shows a lady picking flowers in a pastoral lane summer shows a lady sitting on a bench next to a hayfield and the fall sheet depicts a lady mailing letters on a city street with yellow flowers in her hand. Wikipedia "Richard Veenfliet". The four chromolithographs were drawn by Richard Veenfliet. Veenfliet was a German-born American artist Civil War Veteran having fought for the Union an architect and an early advocate for immigration. Veenfliet moved from New York state to Michigan and would become a member of the Cincinnati Art Club. He was active in the art community until his death in 1922. A charming and richly detailed calendar. Very Good with the occasional tiny surface rub and a discreet tear to the right margin of both the spring and summer sheets .5" and 1" respectively. The Winters Co unknown
Bookseller reference : 00009241
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[VOTES FOR WOMEN].
THE STATUTES OF NEW ZEALAND:
<b>FIRST EDITION.</b> <i>4to pp. viii 539 1 blank; light foxing to title and a few minor spots in places but otherwise clean throughout;</i><br /><br />in contemporary cloth spine lettered in gilt expertly recased spine and boards rather sunned back board creased along centre; with the contemporary ownership stamps of 'Hampden Borough Council' at head of title and front free endpaper; a very good copy of this important document.<br /><br />In spite of it's dour title and rather dry subject matter this is a significant work indeed a landmark publication in the history of 'votes for women': The Statutes of New Zealand fourth session of the eleventh parliament 1893 contains the first printed acknowledgement of a woman's right to vote.<br /><br />On 19 September 1893 the governor Lord Glasgow signed a new Electoral Act into law. This is found in the present work as Act 18 'An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to the qualification and registration of electors and the conduct of elections of members of the house of representatives' p. 35 in which it is noted that where the context of "person" is stated this 'includes woman' p. 37. As a result of this landmark legislation New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. <br /><br />'The suffrage campaign in New Zealand began as a far-flung branch of a broad late-19th-century movement for women's rights that spread through Britain and its colonies the United States and northern Europe. This movement was shaped by two main themes: equal political rights for women and a determination to use them for the moral reform of society through for example the prohibition of alcohol. <br /><br />New Zealand's pioneering suffragists were inspired both by the equal-rights arguments of philosopher John Stuart Mill and British feminists and by the missionary efforts of the American-based Women's Christian Temperance Union WCTU. A number of New Zealand's leading male politicians including John Hall Robert Stout Julius Vogel William Fox and John Balance supported women's suffrage. In 1878 1879 and 1887 bills or amendments extending the vote to women or at least female ratepayers only narrowly failed to pass in Parliament. <br /><br />Outside Parliament the movement gathered momentum from the mid-1880s especially following the establishment of a New Zealand WCTU in 1885. Skilfully led by Kate Sheppard WCTU campaigners organised a series of huge petitions to Parliament: in 1891 over 9000 signatures were gathered in 1892 almost 20000 and finally in 1893 nearly 32000 were obtained – representing almost a quarter of the adult European female population in New Zealand' see http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/brief-history. <br /><br />In most other democracies - notably Britain and the United States - women did not win the right to the vote until after the First World War. Not listed separately on OCLC but found amongst various sets of the Statutes recorded. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3210176
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[WEAVING -- WOMEN]. [LOISEL, E.]
Manuel pour l’execution de vraies tapisseries hautes lisses Gobelins et tapis savonnerie. Resultats particulierement faciles sur le metier “L’Independent.â€. . Ouvrages artistiques de dames.
Paris: Imp. Garjeanne 21 Boulevard du Temple 1901. 8vo. 62 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s advertisements for the “L’Independent†loom. With 50 text illustrations and diagrams. Green-tinted softcovers cover art of young woman seated weaving a tapestry on an “Independent†loom minor chipping to corners some age toning to the paper still a VG- copy. First edition of this fin-de-siecle manual targeting weaving and decorative arts work by young women on how to assemble prepare for weaving and then weave Gobelins style tapestries and Savonnerie style knotted pile carpets. Loisel has included instructions on loom structure knotting loom patterns colours and more. Worldcat locates 1 copy Bibliotheque Nationale. [Imp. Garjeanne, 21, Boulevard du Temple], paperback
Bookseller reference : 62585
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